Stove



Nov. 10, 1931. J. H.A LIEBER i v 1,830,843

STOVE Filed Jan. l1, 19550 WWM patented o'v. 1931 JAMES HENRY LIEBER, or sr. Louis, Missoum srovE Application led January v11, 1930. Serial No. 420,079.

This invention relates generally to stoves and hasparticular reference to a so-called cooking table, wherein cooking utensils or vessels are set into an enclosure openingv r, through the top of the tables. Y

The invention has for its principal objects to provide a cooking table adapted for use with a combustion device, as agas burner or the like; to provide a cooking table adapted in for use with a heating device in which heat is reflected to the sides of the contained cooking vessel; to provide a heat-insulated enclosure around such contained vessel for heatretainng purposes; and in general to iinprove the construction and utility of cookingk vessels--all as will more particularly hereinafter appear. `1

And with the above and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novel fea- 2o tures of form, construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stove or cooking table embodying the preferred form of my invention; Y

Figure 2 is a vertical fragmentary crosssectional View through one of the utensil receiving enclosures of Figure 1, showing a contained utensil, the combustion, device thereunder, and a part of the housing therearound;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary top plan view along the line 3--3 of Figure 2, the contained cooking utensil being shown in section; and

Figure 4 is a horizontal sectional view through lthel utensil enclosure along the line 4-4 of Figure 2, showing the grating means for supporting a utensil in heat-receptive re- 49 lation to the combustiondevice, the utensil being removed. K

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, which illustrate a' preferred ernbodiment of the invention, the stove or so- 47 called cooking-table preferably includes a burner-box or housing A,'having a top-clo-v sure 1, front and back or side closures 2, 3,

and end closures 4, 4. At this time it may be said that the burner box A may be an integral 50 part of a stove, or it may be a separate unit to be set on a stove, or, as in the preferred embodiment, the housing VA maybe supported bylioor-engaging members or legs`5,[5, which in the present instance are extensions of the corner angle-members of the housing.y Mounted'in the burner-box are a plurality of heating` devices B,"each preferablycomprising a fuel combustion means as a gas burner or the like, and for such purposes there is provided across the front of the housing A a suitably supported gas-supply `pipe or: socalled manifold 6, from which there leady suitable header-pipes 7, 7, each supplying gas to the respective burners B. In such regard it may be pointed out that one ofthe burners B is composed of three separately controlled annularly arranged ring-burner units 8a, 8b, Sc, controlled by three valves 9, 9, 9, while the other burners may `have but two suchy burner units, controlled bv two valves 9, 9, J as shown in Figure1. Preferably the burners are each supported on a suitable cross-mem- Y ber `10V. (Fig.'2.)

Opening through -the top wall 1 of the housing A'is a utensil receiving open-ended 75 chamberC, depending interiorly the burner- Y box A and formed by a preferably annular wall or lutensil enclosure 11, extending through anape'rture 12 (Fig. 1) in the wp wall, this aperturebeing made to receive the chamber C, and in such regard the opening 12 in the top-closure 1 is preferably upvstan'dingly kfianged as at 13, the top margin of the wall 11 beingy supportingly crimped vover the flange 13, as shown at 14, Figure 2, and'in such wise providing a table-like appearance to the` top wall'of the housing'A, although it will be understood that the chamber C may project'more or less above the top wall lof the housing, and may be looselyreinovably supported thereupon,

desired.

Preferably, though no-t necessarily, attached to the lower margin of the wall 11 is a utensil supporting grating or grid 15, best seen in Figure 4, and in such respect it may bepointed out that preferably the enclosure 1l is upstandinglydisposed over and in heatreceptive relation with the burner B for ascensional passage of theV gases of combustion -l00 from the burner through the grid 15 and chamber C. In such regard, if a suitable cooking vessel or utensil D be disposed Within the chamber C in heat-receptive relation to the hot-gases supplied to its underside, as

from the burner B, such gases will, of course, laterally escape from under the utensil D and impingethe enclosing Wall 11 for delecting said gases upon the sides oi the vessel D.

,For such purposes the vessel D is preferably 'spaced from the Wall 11vso asto leave an `suitable conjoined Wall of insulating material 1T, which preferably is retained or supported around the chamber C by a channelshaped annular member or casing 18 suitably fastened as by elements 19 to the Walls 11.

As shown the vessel Dl is removabl su i 1 ported on the grid 1o in the chamoer C, lbut it is to be understood that other means may be employed for such purposes, and liket'vise that the chamber C may be integrallyunited 'i ,or otherwise forma part of th'e'vessel D in such Wise that a unitary structuremay be provided for setting on an ordinary stove, which latter, it Willbe understood, may 'in suchregardbe a gas, Wood or coal stove, or may be of the electrical type, asmay best serve the purposes intended.

lVhile the use of the invention has been pointed out as the description has proceeded, it may be said that, the same isparticuiarly adapted 'for restaurantl and hospital use in cooking large quantities of food in an econom-` ical manner, and also to take theplace of steam tables, and furthertor usein hospitals for sterilizingrpurposes, or forl cooking purposes in homes and in general, Wherever heat-transference is to be accomplished in a closure for said housing having' a vessel receiving opening surrounded by an upstanding annular flange, and a vessel enclosing annular Wall depending through said opening the upper margin of said Wall being supportingly crimped over said annular flange. Y

2. A gasnstove including in combination a top plate having anopeningsurrounded by an up-standing annular flange, anl annular Wall depending in said opening for attachment of its yupper' `.margin to said Aannular iange, and means attached to the depending portion of saidfannular Wall for supporting insulation material therearound, Y

In testimony whereof,v I have signed my name to thisrspeciiication. y

. AMES HENRY LIEBER.

highly efcient, economical and practical` It is to be understood that changes and` moditications in the form, construction, ar

rangement and combination of the several parts ofthe device may be made and-sub'- stituted for those herein shown and described, i

Without departing from the nature and principlel of the invention.,V

Having thus described my y invention, what I claim and desire tol secure by Letters Patent i 1. In a stove, the coinbinationnwith a heating de viceand apho'using therefor, 1Voiiat'op izo 

